Lance Armstrong’s former teammate, Tyler Hamilton, says Armstrong and other team leaders encouraged, promoted and took part in a doping program in an effort to win the Tour de France in 1999 and beyond, according to a report aired Sunday night on “60 Minutes.”

Hamilton said he saw Armstrong take performance-enhancing drugs, EPO and testosterone and also saw him receive a banned blood transfusion in 2000.

Hamilton revealed other observations about the U.S. Postal team operation, including that team leaders, among them doctors and managers, encouraged and supervised doping and that doping was going on inside the U.S. Postal team even before Armstrong joined in 1998.

Area colleges

Hilary Barte helped the top-ranked Stanford women’s tennis team in two ways to beat Georgia 4-0 to advance to the semifinals of the NCAA championships at Stanford.

Barte won her singles match in straight sets and teamed with Mallory Burdette for a victory that helped the Cardinal win the doubles point. Reigning champion Stanford extended its home winning streak to 183 matches and will meet Baylor, a 4-3 winner over North Carolina, in the semifinals Monday.

The Stanford softball team beat Nebraska 4-1 to win the Stanford regional and advance to the best-of-three Tuscaloosa super regional next weekend against No. 2 Alabama. The Cardinal’s Ashley Hansen drove in two runs.

Jolene Henderson shut out host Louisville 3-0, as the No. 7 Cal softball team won a regional title to advance to a super regional in Lexington, Ky., against Kentucky.

Austin Wilson singled to drive in the go-ahead run in the eighth inning after Tyler Gaffney’s hit had tied it, and the Stanford baseball team won 2-1 over Arizona.

Adam Pluto limited the Cal baseball team to three hits and two runs in eight innings of host UCLA’s 5-2 win.

Nevada beat host San Jose State 8-5, taking three of four games of the series, and finished one game ahead of the Spartans (33-24, 11-13) in the Western Athletic Conference baseball standings.

Gymnastics

The world gymnastics championships will be held in Tokyo from Oct. 7-16 as originally planned. The International Gymnastics Federation decided not to move the event, despite concerns about radiation after the March earthquake and tsunami.

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